After Paul Sorvino threatened Harvey Weinstein‘s life for allegedly blacklisting his daughter Mira, the actress gushed over her father on Twitter.
“My love for my father has only continued to grow since this moment,” Mira, 50, tweeted in reply to a video of her 1996 Oscar acceptance speech in which she thanked Paul, 78, profusely. “All the love in my heart! He is the most loving father, the most brilliant actor, the most beautiful operatic tenor, the most talented visual artist- the wisest and most human advice giver, & best Grandpa ever!!”
Mira previously accused Weinstein, 65, of sexually harassing her, then blacklisting her from Hollywood after she rebuffed his advances. Directors Terry Zwigoff and Peter Jackson claimed that Weinstein urged them not to cast Mira roles in “Bad Santa” and “Lord of the Rings.”
“I can’t say for certain if [my career] was impacted — there are other variables, like the fact that I had four children in eight years. That’s my choice; I wanted to have a big family,” she wrote in an essay for The Hollywood Reporter last month.
“But I won an Oscar with Miramax. To not continue and star in their movies much past that doesn’t make sense. I felt if I had accepted Harvey’s advances, I would have continued to make movies with them, and they were the people winning the Oscars for that decade. I was not offered any movie roles past 1996 … once Quentin [Tarantino] and I broke up, that was it. Radio silence.”
Weinstein has denied Mira’s allegations.